Comments on: Is there a Facebook spybot?

By: luke

luke — Thu, 28 Jan 2010 17:06:20 +0000

Thanks @geekdrop – I’ve updated the original post

By: Stephen

Stephen — Thu, 28 Jan 2010 09:46:12 +0000

I had some sort of gremlin get into my facebook account, and message a few people with a virus laden link. Nice! I had a look for this ‘spybot’ and didn’t find in in my account. I did remove something the other day though – but not from application settings, though i can’t remember where!

By: Melissa

Melissa — Thu, 28 Jan 2010 02:57:32 +0000

I did not have it. I hope this helps? )

By: GeekDrop

GeekDrop — Thu, 28 Jan 2010 02:27:07 +0000

Here’s some more info on it, and how to fix your Boxes tab if anyone fell for the hoax:

http://geekdrop.com/content/facebook-spybot-how-to-remove

By: Sarah

Sarah — Wed, 27 Jan 2010 19:05:58 +0000

I did go and look, and did find it, and have delelted it. Paranoia? Maybe, but better safe than sorry?

By: Rich

Rich — Wed, 27 Jan 2010 16:20:10 +0000

I’ve been told that in the ‘help’ area of Facebook where you can ask questions there is an official response to this from Facebook.

In short its something that their dev team have ‘accidentally on purpose’ left there whilst working on new profile settings. Deleting or removing it can lead to bits of your current profile disappearing!

Someone did pass me a link to the page with the official response on it, I will try and find it again and post it here!

By: luke

luke — Wed, 27 Jan 2010 15:43:20 +0000

its web based so it shouldn’t matter what machine you’re running on. So far everyone (well 5 people who’ve responded) has this file, so I’m still in the harmless remnant camp…

By: Jon Curtis

Jon Curtis — Wed, 27 Jan 2010 15:15:18 +0000

I id this on my Mac this morning and it is gone and now I’ve looked on an XP machine it is still not there.